without a voice; silent; having no opinion; without influence; having no vote
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Voiceless Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
(a.)
Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutHaving no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
voiceless
\voice"less\, a.
1. having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. i live and die unheard, with a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
2. (phon.) not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd.
voiceless
stop (phon.), a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. -- voice"less*ly , adv. -- voice"less*ness , n.
voiceless
adj
1. (linguistics) of speech sounds [syn: surd, unvoiced]
[ant: sonant]
2. not using the voice; "unvoiced thoughts"; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s' [syn: unvoiced]
[ant: voiced]
3. uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `help me'"; "voiceless whispers" [syn: breathed]
4. being voiceless through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic]
similar words(2)
voiceless stop
voiceless consonant
Adjective
1. of speech sounds
(synonym) surd, unvoiced
(classification) linguistics
2. not using the voice; "unvoiced thoughts"; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'"
(synonym) unvoiced
(similar) whispered
3. uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers"
(synonym) breathed
(similar) inaudible, unhearable
4. being voiceless through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
(synonym) aphonic
(similar) inarticulate, unarticulate
Voiceless Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating. Phonologically, this is a type of phonation, which contrasts with other states of the larynx, but some object that the word "phonation" implies voicing, and that voicelessness is the lack of phonation.
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